TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasts extremely heavy rainfall for the next three days in the southern regions of the country, while heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to continue over south Peninsular India during the next five days.
2. All arrangements have been put in place for the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections today. 49 constituencies spread over six states and two Union Territories will go to polls in this phase.
3. The states which will be going to polls in Phase 5 of the Lok Sabha elections are Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal, along with two union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Phase 5 of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 will see key candidates such as Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, Rahul Gandhi, Omar Abdullah and others.
4. Prime Minister and Senior BJP leader, Narendra Modi addressed several rallies in Jharkhand and West Bengal yesterday.
5. The student enrollment under the Scheduled Caste category has grown by 44%, from 46 lakh in 2014-15 to 66 lakh in 2021-22. According to a report of the National Commission for Backward Classes, minority female student enrollment also witnessed over 42% increase, from over 10 lakh in 2014-15 to 15 lakh in 2021-22. Female SC enrollment increased by 51%, whereas that of ST students went up by 65.2%.
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6. Food regulator FSSAI has asked traders and food business operators not to use the banned product ‘calcium carbide’ for ripening of fruits.
7. Telangana state cabinet will meet at 3 pm on Monday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy. This was decided hours after the Election Commission of India (ECI) gave its nod on Sunday on the condition that it takes decisions only on issues of an urgent nature.
8. Devotees visiting Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple in Yadadri, Telangana will have to adhere to a dress code from June 1. This rule is exempted for those coming for darshan in the general queue. The dress code is mandatory for devotees participating in Arjitha Sevas, Nitya Kalyanam, Sudarshana Narasimha Homam, and Satyanarayana Swamy Vratham and for VIP darshan.
9. In Andhra Pradesh, Anantapur district administration is planning to start distributing subsidised groundnut seeds during this kharif season from May 24 following timely pre-southwest monsoon showers that the district has received.
10. Gopi Thotakura, an entrepreneur and a pilot, on Sunday became the first Indian to venture into space as a tourist aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin’s NS-25 mission.
Thotakura was selected as one of the six crew members for the NS-25 mission, making him the first Indian space tourist and the second Indian to venture into space after the Indian Army’s Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma in 1984.
11. PM Modi will start his poll campaign in Punjab with his first rally in Patiala on Thursday, Punjab BJP general secretary Rakesh Rathour on Sunday said the prime minister will address three public rallies in the state on 23 May and 24 May.
12. Jhargram Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kunar Hembram joined the Trinamool Congress in the presence of party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee at an election meeting on Sunday.
13. Bharatiya Janata Party in Odisha, Biju Janata Dal Nimapara MLA Samir Ranjan Dash on Sunday joined the BJP after quitting the regional outfit.
14. According to India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials, Country’s highest temperature seen in Delhi as Najafgarh sizzles at 47.8°C; all schools ordered shut in Ghaziabad, this was the highest temperature recorded in the country this year, followed by 47.7 degrees Celsius in Agra.
15. ICE CREAM MAN OF INDIA @ Raghunandan Srinivas Kamath (70), the founder of Naturals Ice Cream, passed away on Friday night. His first ice cream parlour NATURALS ICE CREAM was launched in 1984 in Juhu.
LEGAL REPORT
#Chief Justice of India:
Shri Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
#Minister Of Law & Justice : Arjun Ram Meghwal
#International Court Of Justice Prz. : Nawaf Salam
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1. A District Court in Delhi has sent Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s close aide, Bibhav Kumar, to five-day police custody after he was arrested in connection with AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal’s assault case.
2. Delhi police has detained several Aam Aadmi Party workers marching towards the BJP headquarters in the national capital as part of Jail Bharo protest. Restrictions under Section 144 of CrPC have been imposed on DDU Marg, and there is no permission for any kind of protest.
3. The Election Commission has issued a show cause notice to West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar for alleged violation of the Model Code of Conduct. The Commission said, it has received a complaint from Trinamool Congress wherein it is alleged that the BJP published an advertisement in the Anandabazar and Pratidin newspapers on the 5th of this month containing, false, unverified and misleading statement to unduly influence the minds of the voters.
4. National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday called for “international probe” into killings by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, a day after twin terror attacks rocked the Valley amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
5. A court in Uttarakhand has sentenced a Patanjali official and two others to six months in jail after samples taken from the Patanjali Navratna Elaichi Soan Papdi (a traditional sweet) failed a quality test.
6. The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday said that till now during Lok Sabha they have seized Rs 8,889 crore, with drugs comprising 45% of the total.
7. The symbol “mike” (microphone) was given to Amritpal Singh, the chief of Waris Punjab De, who is being held under the National Security Act, so he can contest as an independent candidate for the Khadoor Sahib seat.
8. A trend on social media platform X Sunday morning is # BoycottNaturals. It is because of the views of CK Kumaravel, co-founder of Naturals Salon and Conglomerate on Savarkar that he expressed on X, formerly Twitter.
In response to PM Modi’s remark during an election campaign in Maharashtra’s Kalyan, where he said, “I challenge INDI alliance leaders to say five sentences on greatness of Veer Savarkar”, Kumaraval listed out some. He wrote in a post on X on May 16 that Savarkar is a “coward”, “co-conspirator in Gandhi’s assassination”, “expert in writing mercy petitions”.
9. Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha on Sunday strongly condemned the terrorist attacks in Shopian and Pahalgam and said security forces have been given a free hand to bring the perpetrators of these attacks to justice. Terrorists struck at two places in Kashmir on Saturday night, killing a former sarpanch in Shopian.
10. A former spokesperson of the banned Jamat-e-Islami surrendered before police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar district. The accused person namely Ali Mohd Lone @ Advocate Zahid Ali resident of Nihama Pulwama.
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FINANCE
#Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman.
#Commerce & Industry : Piyush Goyal
#RBI Gvrnr: Shaktikanta Das
#President of the World Bank : Ajay Banga
#IMF MD: Kristalina Georgieva
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💰 USD ₹ 84 (Approx)
💷 GBP ₹105(Approx)
€ Euro : ₹ 90(Approx)
🇨🇳 Yuan ¥ : ₹ 12
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GDP(PPP ) :
purchasing power parity (PPP)
$13.119 trillion
GDP (nominal)
: $3.73 trillion
(Nominal means total market value of all goods and services produced in a country’s economy) .
GDP growth : 8.4% (Q3 2023-24)
India is the fifth largest economy in the world.
Inflation rate : Retail Inflation 5.69% in Dec 2023
Population : 143.86 cr
(17.7% of the total world population).
Unemployment : 10.09% (Oct2023)
Per capita: This income is also known as average income as it is calculated by dividing the total income of the country by the total population of the country.
GDP per capita
$2,845 (Nominal; 2024)
$9,983 (PPP; 2024)
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BSE SENSEX
74,005.94 +342.22 (0.46%)🌲
NIFTY
22,502.00 +98.15 (0.44%)🌲
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Rates in Financial Capital Mumbai
GOLD : ₹ 73,400/10gm (24 krt)
SILVER : ₹ 89,000/KG
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DIESEL : ₹ 88/Ltr
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Auto Gas : ₹ 60/Ltr
CNG : ₹ 74/Kg
LPG : ₹ 803/14.2 Kg
1. 08 out of 10 senior business leaders have already deployed artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance existing revenue streams or create new ones, a new study by Tata Consultancy Services, a global leader in IT services, found recently.
2. Norway’s central bank has excluded Adani Group’s port firm, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), from its government pension fund due to ethical concerns.
This makes APSEZ the 15th Indian company to face such action, following previous exclusions of companies such as ONGC, GAIL, NTPC, and Vedanta.
3. Sanjiv Puri, the Chairman and Managing Director of ITC, has been appointed as the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the term 2024-25, announced the chamber on Sunday.
4. State-owned Bank of Maharashtra recorded the highest growth rate last fiscal in terms of total business and deposit mobilisation among public sector lenders at a time when most banks are facing difficulty in achieving double-digit growth.
The Pune-headquartered lender has registered a 15.94 per cent rise in the total business (domestic) in FY24, followed by the country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) with 13.12 per cent growth.
5. India Ratings and Research (Ind-RA) has projected a moderation in the country’s GDP growth rate for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2023-24, with an expected rate of 6.7%.
6. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has relaxed Know Your Customer (KYC) rules. As per a circular dated May 14, SEBI announced that investors can now invest in mutual funds even if their Aadhaar card and PAN card are not linked.
6. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced a revised schedule for the auction of Government of India treasury bills (T-bills), reflecting a strategic move to enhance liquidity in the banking sector.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
#Information and Broadcasting Minister: Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
#Chairman of The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) :
R Madhavan
#Chairman of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC): Prasoon Joshi
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1. After Ajay Devgn’s Shaitaan Movie, Actress Kaajal to act in Horror thriller movie MAA. Filmmaker Vishal Furia, best known for directing films like Chhorii (2021) starring Nushratt Bharuccha has wrapped up the shoot of his upcoming film MAA starring Kajol in a lead role.
2. Actor Kartik Aaryan’s remarkable physical transformation for his role in the upcoming film CHANDU CHAMPION has garnered widespread admiration on social media. Chandu Champion tells the inspiring story of Murlikant Petkar, India’s first Paralympic gold medalist in freestyle swimming.
For Chandu Champion, Kartik reduced his body fat from 39% to 7% over a span of one and a half years. He accomplished this feat by quitting sugar and adhering to a strict diet, a process that Kabir Khan described in detail during the film’s trailer launch event in Gwalior.
3. Actor Kangana Ranaut claims that she will quit Bollywood, if she wins election. She is contesting as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from the Mandi seat in the Lok Sabha elections 2024. During one of her recent interviews, Kangana was asked whether she will quit Bollywood if she wins the Mandi seat?
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DEFENCE
#Supreme Commander of Armed Forces: The President
#Def Minister: Rajnath Singh
#Def Minister of State :
Ajay Bhatt
#Union Home : Amit Shah
#National Security Advisor : Ajit Doval
#Chief of Defence Staff:
Gen Anil Chauhan, PVSM UYSM AVSM SM VSM
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1. Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhanon Sunday emphasised importance of maintaining the desired standards of readiness and synergy among the armed forces.
CDS Gen Chauhan visited Prayagraj based Central Air Command and was briefed about the operational aspects of the CAC at the headquarters.
2. Navy vessels of the Indian Eastern Fleet have docked in the port of Manila on Sunday.Three Indian Navy vessels arrived for a four-day goodwill visit from 19 to 22 May.
3. BEL’s Robotic Surveillance Platform is an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV). The vehicle is capable of navigating to user specified waypoints while detecting and avoiding obstacles.
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In Bharat there are 28 states and 8 Union territories.
Population of Bharat:
142 cr (2023)
President of Bharat ,
Smt Droupadi Murmu
Vice President
Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar
Prime Minister : Shri Narendra Modi
Speaker Lok Sabha :
Shri Om Birla (BJP)
Rajyasabha Seats : 245 (233 Elected + 12 Nominated)
Loksabha : 550 members (530 States 20 Union Territories)
Chief Election Commissioner:
Shri Rajiv Kumar
20 May (Monday)
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Drik Ritu : Grishma (Summer)
पक्ष :: Shuklapaksh
Vikram Samvat – 2081
Shaka Samvat – 1946
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Swati
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